ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13

([Raspberry Pi] 20 November 10:32 AM EST RP1 Camera Front End CFE)

Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver.



Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13

([AMD] 20 November 10:18 AM EST Linux 6.13 + AMD)

The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers.



OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage

([Intel] 20 November 08:34 AM EST OpenVINO 2024.5)

Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit.



Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 06:34 AM EST CRC32C + AEGIS128 Optimizations)

The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors.



Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 06:10 AM EST VFS Multigrain Timestamps)

Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs. The multigrain code went back to be reworked and now just over one year later the code has been re-merged into the mainline Linux kernel.



Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13

([Hardware] 20 November 06:00 AM EST Linux 6.13 HID)

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle.



Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13

([Linux Kernel] 19 November 08:43 PM EST Lazy Preemption)

All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model.



FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support

([Programming] 19 November 04:53 PM EST FLTK 1.4)

FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90's.



New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable

([Linux Security] 19 November 02:29 PM EST force_cpu_bug=)

While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their mitigations even if the system in use isn't known to be vulnerable.



Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend

([Free Software] 19 November 12:00 PM EST Blender 4.3)

Blender 4.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading open-source 3D modeling software.



FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System

([Free Software] 19 November 11:24 AM EST FreeCAD 1.0)

FreeCAD 1.0 was just released as a major update to this leading open-source, cross-platform 3D parametric modeler software.



Linux 6.13 PM Switches EPYC Turin To AMD P-State, More Aggressive Default For Intel GNR

([Linux Kernel] 19 November 10:07 AM EST Power Management)

The power management subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly opened Linux 6.13 merge window. As covered within individual articles over the past few weeks, the Linux 6.13 power management updates include some notable changes for both AMD and Intel systems.



Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL

([Red Hat] 19 November 08:45 AM EST RHEL On Windows Subsystem For Linux)

The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux... Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced today that RHEL is coming to WSL.



Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway

([Debian] 19 November 08:37 AM EST Debian 13 Trixie)

The Debian 13 "Trixie" release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching.



WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features

([Wayland] 19 November 08:29 AM EST WayVNC 0.9)

WayVNC 0.9 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server catering to wlroots-based Wayland compositors. WayVNC makes it easy to get a VNC server up and running on Sway and other wlroots-based compositors while with today's update is much more capable.



Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13

([Intel] 19 November 06:22 AM EST Intel SNC6)

A few weeks back I wrote about Intel engineers preparing SNC6 support with Linux for six nodes per L3 cache. That was the first time hearing of SNC6 with SNC 1/2/3/4 sub-NUMA clustering modes being more common. That support is now ready for merging with the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle.



MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server

([Hardware] 19 November 06:39 AM EST Capri2 Server With Open Firmware)

Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD's in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization.



Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License

([Arch Linux] 19 November 06:13 AM EST Arch Linux Package Sources License)

Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license.



GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel

([GNU] 19 November 06:04 AM EST GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu)

The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation.



AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator

([LLVM] 18 November 05:15 PM EST AMD GFX950)

As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators.



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